That, of course, is heavily dependent on whether the on-the-court Kobe becomes “Just Won Fifth Championship Kobe” or “Just Lost in Game 7 to the Celtics Kobe.”

Photo of the day

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Quote of the day

“I think talk is cheap. He’s got to stand toe to toe. And they’ve got to stand toe to toe with us for 90 minutes. And if he’s still standing, then I’ll take my hat off to him. But a lot of boxers talk, too, and they’re looking up at the lights. And the next thing they know, they’re trying to figure out how they got there.”–USA keeper Tim Howard, on Slovenian Andrej Komac‘s prediction that Slovenia would beat the U.S.

Comment of the day

Never before in the history of commenting on the Internet has a poster been so polite in suggesting that someone else was an idiot.

“If you can not appreciate what Perkins does defensively, oh well. For me, the Lakers being able to dominate the paint after he went out of the game, tells me how much he was doing, so you might be an idiot. Just saying.”–LL